Part Three Memories of Our farm

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The hillside rose to the railraod track way above my grandpas carbin We had a bee hive yard on that hill side.to my left walkig quite a ways was another' big fenced in fiedl right above our second' apple orchardl It was fallowedl. Hete' my mom a nd I found gem stones and also Indian relics two tomahawks of pink quarz 'chiseled to a very sharp edge and a dozen pink quartz arrow heads and part of a bow. So we knew that Sioux Ogalla tribes had once been on that hill side. My mom had planted what she called nosegay little gardens on the various fields of blue bells, iris and Johnny jump ups. She carried water to them when the fields were not being irrigated. An interesting factor the railroad ran through our farm so the field to the left of my grandads cabin ran to the edge of the tracks on the other side we also owned two large fields that rose to the hill that divided our property from another farm. "A uuge irrigation channel ran through those fields.we swam in' that during summer hot days. One original third part and graphic by P Hatley copy righted 2016